The Irish standard., 1887-12-10
CATHOLIC C1A!. NEWS.
REITGIOUS NOTES,
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RELIGIOUS NOTES.
Rev. H. Wagner has been appointed
to Jackson, Mo.
A Catholic school building is beii,t
erected in Wichita, Kas.
Bishop O'Mahoney, auxiliary Bishop
of Toronto, is in poor health.
Rev. T.. Die|n1an of Vancouver, B. G.
has been transferred to Wilepa, w. T
The Peters Pence collection in th<
Archdiocese of Cincinnati up to date il
$4,000.
TIE Papal Jubilee collection III New
York tlis year reached the unusual higf
figure Of $50, ,665.O7.
Cardinal Lagenieux, Archbishop o1
Rheims, is called the "Fathes Of Work.
ingmen'' in his diocese.
Work OF, the Sacramento cathedral is
beiug rapidly pushed forward, and all
early completion is looked for.
The F'ranciscans have taken charge OF
the German parish in Denver. Col
Father Bender goes TO Pueblo.
R.v. John Lewis. for the past forty
wears pastor ni st. Aaary's Catholic
Church, at Clifton, S. L.. died recently
Among prec,ous MSS. in the Ash
burnban collection is treatise on s'The
Virginity of Mary" Of the tenth CEN
tury, written in Visigoth characters.
The Xavier sJaion, one OF the largest
Catholic Clubs il New York. are prepar-
ing to build 81 new clnb house to cost
over a quarter of million dollars.
The REC hat, the insignia of his office
which was placed on the head of Cardi-
maj Gibbons when he was in inome by
Pope Leo, reached Baltimore, Novem-
ber IS
Right Rev. Bishop Fink, OF Leaven-
worth, Kas., has remiFted Ss2 SIG rs to
Rome az Peters Pence. This includes
the two new i2ioceses of Wichita and
Concordia.
The first anniversary Of the death Of
the lanented Archbishop Seghers.
which occurred OH the 28tli ult.. was 3D.
served in he Cathedral in Victoria, b.
c., with unusual solamnity.
A New York German Catholic paper
deplores the great and growing Lumber
oi private oilapeIs Of the 'twealt}y
American Catholics" of New York and
tb;pks it Il bad sign of the Church's fu-
turh.
Rev, Father Dowling, S. j., Presi-
dent of Creighton College, Omaha,
opened "a tgiduusn" in St. Ambrose's
Church. Des Moines, On a recent Sun
day. aaa preached all eloquent sermon
at last mass.
Notwithstanding The millions Of dol
lars spent t,v the various Protestant
Hecta in India, it is Satisfactory that
their missionaries admit f,ur-iftl1s OF
the con versions to Christianity are made
by the Catholic Church.
Ihe Rev. Father Patrick Gleescn, re-
Gently of Chattanooga, Tenn, has been
appointed Vioar-Gencral Of the Nash
vile diocese. Father Gieeson is quite
young. He is natiTe Of the North
Riding of Iipperary county, Ireland,
ana was born near Nenagh.
His Enineuca Cardinal Joseph Peeci,
brother Of the Sovereign Pontiff, having
obtained permission, for reasons OF
health. TO retire from the Prefecture OF
the Cnpgr cation Of Stndes, has been
succeeded Ivy His Eninence Cardinal
Thomas Zigliars.
In the synod Of Che Brooklyn diocese,
it was decreed, among other things that
in the case Of IL mixed marriage, the
nor-C Catholic party must, previous 10
the celebration, subscribe con tract re-
cognjzing that marriage is 1niissolve-
able except by death, and agreeing TO
bring up the children il the Catholic
faith, even in the event that the Catholic
parent should die.
Death Of Mother Mary Clarke
DUBUQUE, Ia, Dec. 4-Motber Mary
Clarke, the head of the order of Sisters
Of Charity, B. V. H., in this country,